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BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

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ADOLPH VON SOHADE, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

BOTTLE-WASHING )MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,643, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed June 14, 1889. Serial No. 314,261. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ADOLPH VON SOHADE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle- Washing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bottle-washing machine of that class in which a cleaningbrush applied to a rotary spindle is introduced into the bottle and the latter removed from said brush when the cleaning operation is accomplished, the bottle-Washin g machine being adapted to clean bottles of different size and shape with equal facility; and the invention consists of a bottle-washing machine in which a rotary spindle is provided with abrush at the front end and with an adjustable sleeve provided with a conicallytapering elastic plug having longitudinal grooves, said plug serving as a support for the bottle-mouth and rotating the bottle while it is held by one hand. The bottle is moved over the brush by means of a horizontally-oscillating forked bottle-guide provided with flaring seats or flanges, the forked end of the guide passing over the spindle as the bottle is moved over the cleaning-brush. The oscillatingbottle-guide is pivoted to a fixed horizon;- tal standard attached to a tank and oscillated between stops by means of a weight which is applied by a cord to the oscillating bottleguide, so as to return thesame to its normal position in front of the rotary brush when the bottle is removed from the cleaning-brush.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved bottle-washing machine, showing the same applied to a suitable tank. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Figs. 3 and 4: are respectively a top view and a vertical longitudinal section of the oscillating bottle-guide and its support. Figs. 5, G, 7, and 8 are detail views of the bottle-guide and the forked end of the same; and Fig. 9 is a side view of the spindle and its adjustable plug, drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a tank of suitable size, in connection with which my improved bottle-washing device is to be used.

The bottle-washer consists of a cleaningbrush B, made of bristles of any approved construction, which brush is applied detachably by its shank into a slitted spring-socket at the front end of a spindle C, to which rotary motion is imparted by foot or other power. A pulley C is keyed to the spindle C, which is adjusted in a sleeve of the pulley by a set-screw a. Back of the brush B is arranged on the spindle an adjustable sleeve B, of brass or other suitable material, which is secured to the spindle by means of a setscrew cl, said sleeve carrying a conically-taperin g elastic plug D, which has longitudinal grooves on its surface, so that it may more readily conform to the size of the mouth of the bottle when the latter is passed over the cleaning-brush B. In front of the cleaning-brush B is arranged a horizontally-oscillatin g bottleguide E, the shank e of which is pivoted to a horizontal bracket-shaped support E that is I firmly attached to the end wall of the tank A. The bracket-support E, is made of enlarged segmental shape at the inner end and provided with a number of perforations, into which stop-pins e e are inserted, by which the extent of oscillating motion of the bottle-guide is determined. To the shank of the bottlerest E is applied a weighted cord E, which is passed over a pulley e at the front wall of the tank A, said weighted cord moving the bottle-guide away from the spindle until the shank of the same is arrested by the forward stop-pin c. In place of the weighted cord a spiral spring can be used for moving the bottle-guide in said direction. The shank e of the bottle-guide E is made extensible, so as to adjust the same accurately to the position of the cleaning-brush E. For this purpose the shank of the bottle-guide is made in two parts, a tubular part which is pivoted to the horizontal support E and an extension part which is guided in the tubular part and clamped thereto by a set-screw f. The bottle-guide E is formed with semicircular outwardly-flaring flange-rests g 9, one at each side of the bottleguide. Against the front rest the head of the bottle is pressed, while the rear rest facilitates the ready entrance of the cleaning-brush into the mouth of the bottle. Beyond the semicircular rests g 9 extends the forked end F of the bottle-guide, the sides of which are made curved or angular, said forked end serving to permit the entrance of the neck of the bottle into the rests g g.-

As the bottle is pressed toward the spindle with its head restingon the flanged front rest 9 of the bottle-guide, it is passed over the r0- tary cleaning-brush of the spindle. The forward motion is continued until the mouth of the bottle is seated on the grooved rubber plug D, which serves to carry along the bottle which rests on the palm of the left hand, while the thumb of the right hand presses against the bottom of the bottle, so as to keep the bottle-mouth in contact with the plug (1. The brush B exerts thereby a cleaning action on the inner surface of the same, while the outer surface is cleaned by the right hand, which takes some water from the tank and applies it to the outside and bottom of the bottle. As soon as the pressure on the bottle is relaxed, the counterweight moves the bottle-guide away from the spindle and removes thereby the bottle away from the cleaning -brush. The next bottle is then placed in position against the flanged seat of the bottle-guide, passed backward over the cleaning-brush on the spindle cleaned by the brush, and then removed by the action of the weight on the shank of the bottle-guide, and so on.

By the extensible shank of the bottle-guide the flanged bottle-rest can be accurately adjusted relatively to the spindles, so that when the bottle-guide arrives in line with the axis of the spindle and the cleaning-brush the center of the bottle-mouth is in line with the axis and permits the easy passing of the bottle-mouth and bottle over the cleaningbrush, so as toyproduce the cleaning of the bottle by the rotary brush at the interior of the same in a quick and effective manner.

The machine is especially adapted to be worked as a foot or water power machine, and forms a handy and convenient machine for smaller bottling establishments, for which a steam washing-machine is too expensive.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a rotary spindle having a brush secured to its inner end, a bracket shaped support having an enlarged segmental inner end, provided with perforations, stop-pins adjustable in said perforations, and a bottle-guide pivoted to said support and provided with outwardly-flaring flange-rests.

, 2. The combination of a rotary spindle having a brush secured to an end thereof, a support provided with adjustable stop-pins, and a bottle-guide having a forked or split end and provided withoutwardly-flaring fiange-rests, said bottle-guide moving in said support.

3. The combination of a rotary spindle having a brush secured to an end thereof, a support provided with an enlarged end having perforations therein, stop-pins fitting in said perforations, a bottle-guide pivoted to said support and having a forked end and flaring flange-rests, and a weighted cord secured to said bottle-guide.

4. The combination of a spindle provided with a detachable brush secured at its inner end, an adjustable sleeve on said spindle, a comically-tapering elastic plug between said sleeve and brush, and a pulley in which said spindle is adjustable.

5. The combination of a tank, an adjustable spindle, a pulley thereon, a brush secured to the inner end of the spindle, a support provided with an enlarged end having stop-pins adapted to be inserted therein, and a pivoted bottle-guide having an adjustable extension part, said extension part having-a forked end and flaring flange-rests.

6. The combination, with a rotary spindle, of a brush at the front end of the same, and an adjustable tapering and longitudinally grooved plug on said spindle back of the brush, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination, with a rotary spindle, of a brushat the front end of the same, an

adjustable sleeve on said spindle back of the A IOO 

